Well, here we are again, a few months after my computer went kaflooie....if ya all remember, my windows got corrupted and Staples wanted $195.00 minimum to TRY to get my windows back up and operating.....

so, I went and bought a new computer, but I have realized over the last couple of months that I really do have some files in the old computer that I really do not want to lose. If my windows program wouldn't open and was corrupted, is the hard drive still viable and could my poetry files be retrieved by those hard drive back up systems I see for sale everywhere or won't that work because even if I do plug in the old computer, it won't start up because of the windows issue..... what I mean to say here is can those hard drive retrieval thingies still work without windows having to start up????

This post has been edited by compudodo: Jun 4 2009, 04:13 PM

Yeah... The adapter I linked does 2.5" IDE, 3.5" IDE, and SATA. It plugs in through USB (sure you noticed), not eSATA.

I don't want to sound like I am saying this is the best adapter you can buy. But, I have used 4 other ones and this is the best one I have used. The price is right also.

I will say that the power supplies that come with all the units I had, including this one, are REALLY cheap. The first thing to do with these is take electrical tape and wrap the rubber reinforcement around the cord right where it exits the power supply at. It will definitely break easy if you don't reinforce it. Also, I had the actual "AC" side of the power adapter cord (the regular computer style power cord) go bad that was sent along with one of these units. Just to tell you how cheap some of the components are. Ofcourse, like I said, I use these ALL the time. They get pretty beat up by my techs and I.

This post has been edited by appleoddity: Jun 22 2009, 10:34 AM